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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Tuesday.

This morning we went along to the Mattins Service at the Row Chapel (I've mentioned this chapel before - it was built in the 1400s to serve a row of nearby almshouses, which it still does).

In the seat behind us sat a lady in an Easter Bonnet (the lady to the right of the above photo). I complimented her on the bonnet, and she told us she made it herself. I told her it was the only Easter Bonnet I'd seen this Easter, and asked her if she made herself one every year? "Well, no," she said, "But when I was a young girl we all made, or at least trimmed, an Easter bonnet every year, and I do like to keep up the old customs, so I make one every two or three years". Once again, Peggy, I compliment you on it. It looked very festive.
I should confess, that I hadn't got my camera with me, but I'm glad to say that Wendy (of the Wendy Whitecat Blog) had hers, and sent me a copy of the above photo to use on my blog. Thank you Wendy - and I'll try and remember to always put my camera aboard whenever we leave the house in future.

7 comments:

That chapel looks like a comfortable sanctuary, Mike. If it's as cosy inside as it's handsome outside it must be a very welcoming resort.

Jude & Jess went for a day's hat-making course at Rothley Court last summer, had a great time and both came home with elegant head-gear they're proud to wear. Maybe Easter bonnets will make a come-back; until they do I wish power to the elbow of the great survivors who valiantly wave the traditions of yesteryear in the faces of mindless modernists.

Hello Crowbard. The Chapel is a little known gem. Inside it's a rat her nice mix of late medieval original and patching and repairs from every period since. It is, I think, the only Church in the Deanery in which the 1662 services are still in use regularly- so it's a popular place.With ref to the Easter bonnet, for once in a way we are in complete agreement, and I couldn't hope to put it nearly as well meself. Thank you.

I used to have an old crash-helmet which made a fine Easter-egg hat, with cut-outs of all the king's horses and all the king's men stuck round the edges with their arms reaching up to hold all the cracks together - I got ticked off one Easter because wearing it was promoting Christian beliefs in a multi-ethnic school. I referred my head-teacher to my CV and pointed out that the spring-tide egg was a pagan symbol and as a holder of a minority faith I expected moral support and acceptance. She was very good at stalking out; she did it again after my leaving presentation which ended in a set of flash-cards saying 'Best Of Luck Loads Of Courage Keep Smilling' with huge capitals and minute lower case letters! Lord, but she was an awful boss and a failing Head. The school was closed within a year of my leaving!'Keep smiling' was one of her stock answers to every snarl-up she caused, so she couldn't complain I had ignored her!.